Radiation Safety (General) Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 1991 (WA)

6 September 19911 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4631

HEALTH

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RADIATION SAFETY ACT 1975

RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 6)

1991

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.
Citation
1. These regulations may be cited as the Radiation Safety (General) Amendment

Regulations (No. 6) 1991.

Principal regulations
2. In these regulations the Radiation Safety (General) Regulations 1983* are
referred to as the principal regulations.

[*Published in the Gazette of 21 February 1983 at pp. 555-636. For amend- ments to 29 July 1991 see p. 344 of 1990 Index to Legislation of Western Australia and Gazettes of 15 March 1991 and 28 June 1991.]

Regulation 3 amended
3. Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended in subregulation (1) by
deleting the definitions of "paragraph", "Part", "regulation", "Schedule", "sub-

item", "subparagraph", "subregulation", and "the Act".

Regulation 7A inserted
4. After regulation 7 of the principal regulations the following regulation is

inserted—

Exemption for radioactive substances
contained in certain self luminous devices.

" 7A. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), a radioactive substance that is contained in a self luminous device of a model and type specified in Schedule VITA is exempted from the provisions of the Act and the regulations, except those provisions relating to the sale or disposal of radioactive substances.

(2) The exemption given by subregulation (1) does not apply in relation

to a device unless—

(a) the device is used for a purpose which is related to safety;

(b)	the device does not incorporate any change in design or structure that has been made since the exemption was granted;
(c)	the device has affixed to its front surface, in a prominent position, a durable label in the form shown hereunder—
7A (2) (c), ".

* CAUTION RADIOACTIVE *

Disposal of this device other than to the supplier or to the Radiation Health Section of the Health Department of WA is an offence

Radiation Health Section,

18 Verdun St, Nedlands WA 6009

*small radiation warning symbol;

and

(d) the device has affixed to it a label indicating the radioisotope it

contains, its activity as measured on a particular date and the date on which that activity was measured, and the effective useful life span of the device. ".

Schedule IV amended
5. Schedule IV to the principal regulations is amended by inserting after
"(Regulations 3," the following-

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Schedule VILA inserted
6. After Schedule VII to the principal regulations the following Schedule is

inserted—

Schedule VIIA

(Regulation 7A)

Exempted Self Luminous Devices

Model Type

Permiuco self powered sign	FO 1
Permiuco self powered sign	FO 3
Permluco self powered sign	FO 4 11
Permiuco self powered sign	FO 9.

By His Excellency's Command,

L. M. AULD, Clerk of the Council.